Bacon County, Georgia, 1935. The Great Depression's bite was beginning to be felt in the rest of the country, but its teeth had been in Bacon County for years. Harry Crews, one of America's most creative storytellers, was born in a sharecropper's cottage at the end of a dirt road here. A Childhood is his narrative of that time and place: the bad soil and the disease, the blood feuds and the faith healers, the ghosts and the shopping catalogues. A Childhood is a true American classic, a profound vision of the rural South that resounds with the violence of poverty and the tenderness of kinship.